---
type: "Bill"
title: "Renewable Energy"
description: "Renewable Energy; Defining the term “solar facility”; providing that solar facilities are a permitted use in local government comprehensive plan agricultural land use categories and certain agricultural zoning districts; authorizing the Florida Public Service Commission to approve cost recovery by a gas public utility for certain contracts for the purchase of renewable natural gas, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 896"
citation: "Florida SB 896 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ports and harbors", "railroads and other regulated utilities", "reclamation", "and use"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-178"
primary_sponsors: ["Brodeur"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-28"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39215d3e-18cd-44ad-a37c-63290288768f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b38b753cea9d895680cfe03b1f5e28e6d77c797874c077d4d836126afc97fc73"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida SB 896 (2021) — Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy; Defining the term “solar facility”; providing that solar facilities are a permitted use in local government comprehensive plan agricultural land use categories and certain agricultural zoning districts; authorizing the Florida Public Service Commission to approve cost recovery by a gas public utility for certain contracts for the purchase of renewable natural gas, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-178.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 896 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 896 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 896 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 896 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 896 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **25–14** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–5** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **86–29** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brodeur — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-28** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-04** Referred to Regulated Industries; Environment and Natural Resources; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-09** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/09/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2021-03-11** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/16/21, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-16** CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 7 NAYS 1
- **2021-03-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-18** Now in Environment and Natural Resources
- **2021-03-18** CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
- **2021-03-24** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/29/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-29** Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 3 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29** Now in Rules
- **2021-04-15** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/20/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-20** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 11 NAYS 5
- **2021-04-20** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/22/21
- **2021-04-21** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Amendment(s) adopted (633872)
- **2021-04-22** Ordered engrossed
- **2021-04-22** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 25 NAYS 14 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 86, NAYS 29 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-178

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39215d3e-18cd-44ad-a37c-63290288768f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).